 Specialist within the Black Country Integrated Care Board (ICB) . It came with a bumper annualised salary of £77,274. This is three times more than a nurse gets. It comes as the NHS struggles to plug a staggering £7billion funding blackhole caused by rocketing inflation. Earlier this week, NHS boss Amanda Pritchard warned the service is under more pressure now than during Covid because of the cash gap. Some 7 million people in England - one in eight of us - is on an NHS waiting list.){kind=link}
STEVE Barclay is ordering a crackdown on diversity jobs in the NHS amid growing fury “woke box ticking” is costing taxpayers millions.
The new Health Secretary is alarmed at the “spiralling cost” of the jobs at a time when the NHS is massively overstretched.
Earlier this week, it was revealed that more than £700,000 is being spent on diversity jobs in the NHS in a single month.
Mr Barclay is planning a review into this bloated army of middle managers imminently, The Sun on Sunday can reveal.
A Whitehall source said: “Steve is very concerned about the spiralling cost of these jobs. The numbers are clearly getting out of hand.